Digital classrooms in Coimbatore

The Coimbatore Corporation has readied four modern, digital classrooms with computers, internet connection and electronic equipment in as many schools to improve teaching-learning experience.

This could well arrest the declining student strength in schools, said Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan.

Resolution

As per a resolution the Corporation had passed around four months ago, the Corporation had spent Rs. 1 crore to also install interactive boards in the classrooms, where students would get to see modules the teachers had prepared on various topics in textbooks.

The Corporation would supplement the audio-visual modules with those available in the public domain, he added.

The civic body had established the classrooms in its schools on Oppanakara Street, in Selvapuram, Udayampalayam, P.N. Pudur, and Peelamedu.

Extension

In phases, it would extend the facility to other middle and high schools, where students in classes six to nine would benefit by using the facility at least twice a week.

The classes would start this week, said the Commissioner.

The Corporation had taken up the digital classroom project after it found success in the project at the Maniakarampalayam School, where it had partnered with American India Foundation and Dell, for what was called the Digital Equaliser Programme.

In the four schools there were around 1,000 students who would benefit .